qt5base-lts/tests
Alex Trotsenko f265c87e01 Allow QWindowsPipe{Reader|Writer} to work with foreign event loops, take 2
When a foreign event loop that does not enter an alertable wait state
is running (which is also the case when a native dialog window is
modal), pipe handlers would freeze temporarily due to their APC
callbacks not being invoked.

We address this problem by moving the I/O callbacks to the Windows
thread pool, and only posting completion events to the main loop
from there. That makes the actual I/O completely independent from
any main loop, while the signal delivery works also with foreign
loops (because Qt event delivery uses Windows messages, which foreign
loops typically handle correctly).

As a nice side effect, performance (and in particular scalability)
is improved.

Several other approaches have been tried:
1) Using QWinEventNotifier was about a quarter slower and scaled much
   worse. Additionally, it also required a rather egregious hack to
   handle the (pathological) case of a single thread talking to both
   ends of a QLocalSocket synchronously.
2) Queuing APCs from the thread pool to the main thread and also
   posting wake-up events to its event loop, and handling I/O on the
   main thread; this performed roughly like this solution, but scaled
   half as well, and the separate wake-up path was still deemed hacky.
3) Only posting wake-up events to the main thread from the thread pool,
   and still handling I/O on the main thread; this still performed
   comparably to 2), and the pathological case was not handled at all.
4) Using this approach for reads and that of 3) for writes was slightly
   faster with big amounts of data, but scaled slightly worse, and the
   diverging implementations were deemed not desirable.

Fixes: QTBUG-64443
Change-Id: I66443c3021d6ba98639a214c3e768be97d2cf14b
Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
2021-03-02 22:53:06 +02:00
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auto Allow QWindowsPipe{Reader|Writer} to work with foreign event loops, take 2 2021-03-02 22:53:06 +02:00
baselineserver Another round of replacing 0 with nullptr 2020-10-07 23:02:47 +02:00
benchmarks Allow QWindowsPipe{Reader|Writer} to work with foreign event loops, take 2 2021-03-02 22:53:06 +02:00
global tst_bic: Add linux-gcc-ia32 bic data for QtXml 2013-01-16 08:25:28 +01:00
libfuzzer Fuzzing: Provide link to oss-fuzz 2020-12-11 13:45:25 +00:00
manual Switch QNetworkInformation manual test back to using qDebug 2021-02-07 11:10:31 +00:00
shared Move QEMU emulation detector to QTest 2021-02-13 10:02:51 +02:00
testserver Network self-test: make it work with docker/containers 2020-11-17 19:56:06 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt CMake: Refactor optimization flag handling and add optimize_full 2020-10-06 10:07:05 +02:00
README Doc: Fix references to Qt Test 2013-01-30 01:35:06 +01:00

This directory contains autotests and benchmarks based on Qt Test. In order
to run the autotests reliably, you need to configure a desktop to match the
test environment that these tests are written for.

Linux X11:

   * The user must be logged in to an active desktop; you can't run the
     autotests without a valid DISPLAY that allows X11 connections.

   * The tests are run against a KDE3 or KDE4 desktop.

   * Window manager uses "click to focus", and not "focus follows mouse". Many
     tests move the mouse cursor around and expect this to not affect focus
     and activation.

   * Disable "click to activate", i.e., when a window is opened, the window
     manager should automatically activate it (give it input focus) and not
     wait for the user to click the window.